Deputies found 774.8 grams of "spice" or synthetic marijuana at a Punta Gorda apartment Monday.

ARCADIAN PHOTO BY LEX MENZThese weapons and drugs were discovered on a man from Arcadia by Arcadia Police Department officers who were out in the community performing probation checks.

SUN FILE PHOTOHeroin divided up and packaged.

By ANNE EASKER

Staff Writer

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Prisons are where people are sent for doing drugs. They are not supposed to be a place where you learn to use drugs.

But, Kathy Dalton, the mother of an inmate who died of a drug overdose at the Charlotte Correctional Institution last year, said prison was the first place her son ever took the drugs that caused his death last August.

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